Simplified Eligibility for Children’s Medicaid in Texas: A Status Report at Nine Months

Simplified Eligibility for Children's Medicaid in Texas: A Status Report at Nine Months

This report describes the initial success of Texas new law in removing barriers to children's Medicaid participation and provides the baseline information needed to observe and interpret how the next phase of implementation, the EPSDT mandate, will enhance or undermine the goal of broader coverage of Medicaid-eligible children in Texas.